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COVID update and Guidelines

Tena ra koutou, due to COVID we will be announcing this Sunday night 17th October whether the event will continue as planned in Taranaki or shift online and to localised actions.

Rise up for Climate Justice will be possible at Level 2 with the following precautions:

  • Registrations will be limited to 100 (due to outdoor event number restrictions)
  • Please stay home if you are ill or have symptoms
  • We strongly encourage you to vaccinate if you can
  • Camp nearby or at the marae if possible, instead of sleeping in the wharenui at the marae
  • Travel with people you know if possible, and wear masks if you don’t
  • Maintain good hygiene – wash hands frequently
  • Keep track of where you have been through the Covid app or contact tracing records
  • Avoiding greetings that require close physical contact — for example, hongi, harirū, kissing or hugging with people you do not live with or who are outside your bubble
  • Follow the guidelines organisers give at venues – maintain social distancing with people you don’t know and wear a mask

This is subject to change. The organisers strongly prioritise health and well being of all participants and will do everything possible to minimise health risks.

Safer Spaces Policy

 

Background for policy

  • The organising group for the Rise up for Climate Justice  aims to provide a space that is welcoming to all types of people.  
  • A safer space seeks to critique and dismantle oppressive power structures both within the organising space itself (at a rally or meeting, for example), and in the wider world outside the space. 
  • Safer spaces are not only spaces which acknowledge and work to reduce harmful and oppressive behaviour, they are also spaces where our wellbeing is valued, where mental health challenges and distress isn’t stigmatised, and where we support each other to have the care we need, as much as possible.
  • Forms of oppression, domination and discrimination include but are not limited to: racism, colonialism, patriarchy, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, transmisogyny, ableism, classism, fatphobia, and ageism.
  • In keeping with the rally principles, we are committed to creating safer spaces for those most affected by climate change, including tangata whenua and other Indigenous Peoples, people of colour, women, children, the working class and the economically marginalised. 
  • Our organising spaces are located on colonised land. We acknowledge mana whenua as the rightful kaitiaki of Aotearoa, and recognise that tino rangatiratanga was never ceded. 

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Timeline of Events

Here is a rundown on what to expect on each of the five days of Rise Up For Climate Justice. More detail to come.

  • Wednesday 3 November – 5pm powhiri, kai, introduction, whakawhanaungatanga
  • Thursday 4 November – wananga and workshops, networking
  • Friday 5 November – action prep, action linking colonisation to climate change
  • Saturday 6 November – international day of action
  • Sunday 7 November – clean up, poroaki

Climate Justice Coalition To Protest Big Polluters In Taranaki

PRESS RELEASE – 19th September 2021

“If the government won’t rise up for climate justice, we will” says Emily Bailey from Climate Justice Taranaki, which is gathering with a coalition of social justice and environmental groups from across Aotearoa to protest in Taranaki during the COP26 international climate negotiations in November.

“We are sick of waiting for the government to take the urgent action needed to cut greenhouse gas emissions and actually transition the country off fossil fuels. Thursday’s announcement that the Emissions Reduction Plan will be delayed for five months just emphasises the need for people to push back against business as usual and demand real change, not hypothetical or harmful techno-fixes and a disastrous carbon trading and offset system,” said Bailey.

The coalition invites people to meet in South Taranaki from the 3rd to 7th of November for an event called ‘Rise Up for Climate Justice’. The aim is to grow the climate justice movement, deepen the conversation around real transition off fossil fuels and focus on just solutions, and to take non-violent direct action against major climate polluters.

The event will see two days of protest action. “The 5th of November is the day colonial troops invaded Parihaka after 21 years of bloody war across the country to take land and resources from Māori. A war which has continued through systemic racism and an extractive economy has now led to the devastating social and environmental crises before us,” said Bailey. The 6th of November has been announced in Scotland as a Global Day of Action for climate justice with many protests confirmed across the world.

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